Re: socket problems.. Desperate!

["Pavel A. Romashkin" <pavel.romashkin(at)noaa.gov>]

Oh boy, doesn't this sound like a registry hacking time :-(
MS web site has a fairly detailed description of their TCP/IP related
registry entries. Try to compare them on both machines. Check the IDL
related entries, there shouldn't be too many. But I'd back the
registiries up first.

Cheers,
Pavel

Brad Gom wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a rather pressing problem with IDL sockets:  I have written an
> IDL application that uses a socket to talk to a RTLinux box to control
> an instrument and gather data from it for analysis. The system works
> fine on my windows PCs, but I've just tested it on the laptop that will
> actually control the experiment and I get the following error from IDL
> SOCKET:
> 
> SOCKET: Unable to lookup host. Unit 101, File: 142.66.41.72
> 
> I can telnet and ping the 142.66.41.72 machine from the laptop and it
> works fine, but the IDL socket routine fails. As I mentioned, the socket
> works from the other PCs in my lab, so this is probably a windows
> problem on the laptop - So I need to know what this message means so I
> can figure out what to change in my windows settings!
> 
> Does anyone have any insight as to what might cause this type of error?
> -hopefully before next week when this instrument has observing time one
> of the largest telescopes :)t